Corset



(No Model.)

G. L. OLMSTEAD.

CORSET.

Patented 001:. 21, 1890,

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' UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

OHAUNCEY L. OLMSTEAD, OF WEST BROOKFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 438,858, dated October21, 1890.

Application filed April 24, 1890. Serial No. 349,297. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHAUNOEY L. OLM- STEAD, of West Brookfield, in thecounty of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented newImprovements in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, whentaken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters ofreference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification,and represent, in

Figure 1, a front view of the corset; Fig. 2, the breast-section orfront portion of one side of the corset as prepared to receive the yokeand breast portion; Fig. 3, the yoke detached; Fig. 4, a verticalcentral section on line at w of Fig. 1.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of thatclass of corsets in which the swell of the breast is produced byshirring or fullin g the fabric in contradistinc- In this class ofcorsets as heretofore manufactured it has been difficult to produce aneat and strong finish at the intersection of the shirred and bodyportions of the corset. I

The object of my invention is to produc a neat and durable constructionof thisdesirable class of corsets; and the invention consists in a yokemade in the form of an overlay extending down each side of thebreast-piece and across under the breast-piece, the said yoke double,and so as to lie upon the surface of the corset surrounding the shirredportion, While the shirred portion is inclosed within the inner edges ofthe yoke, as more fully hereinafter described. The general cut of A thecorset, aside from the breast portion, may

be of any of the usual constructions. I show a common cut otherwise thanas to the breast portion. At the point where the breast portion is to beintroduced the sections or parts below are cut short, and so as to leavea nearly rectangular-shaped recess A at the upper edge of the corset,corresponding to the part designed to inclose the breast. Around theedges of this opening or space a yoke is applied. This yoke is out fromfabric, as seen in Fig. 3, of a shape corresponding to the shape of theopening A-that is, it is a piece of fabric cut to form two branches B13,

ness upon the outside and the other upon the inside, as seen in Fig. 4.

D represents the breast portion of the corset, which is made fromsuitable fabric and of a size as much greater than the spaceAto befilled as the fullness required for the breast portion. The part D isintroduced between the inner edges of the yoke, fulled or shirred acrossthe bottom, and extending up the sides, and so that the edges of thesaid parts D will substantially abut against the edges of the recessesin which they are placed, and is stitched into the yoke, as representedin Fig. 1. The upper edge of the part D is shirred or fulled into asuitable binding. The

part D may be made of double thickness, as

with the yoke and introducing the full breast portion into that yoke Iam enabled to give to the corset a neat and finished appearance and tomake a strong union of the parts. By thus uniting the inserted partswith the surrounding portion of the corset the overlapping of theshirred portion upon the surrounding edge of the recess is avoided, theyoke being the sole means of securing the parts together.

In the make-up of the corset the yoke would naturally be applied to thebreast portion D before the yoke is attached to the corset; but theparts maybe otherwise assembled.

I do not claim, broadly, a corset having a cut-away breast portionfilled with a fabric shirred or fulled therein, as such, I am aware,broadly considered, is not new.

A corset the body of which has the breast portions cut away so as toleave a recess in the body at the breast portions, combined withspondingto the said recesses, and so that the edges of the said breast-pieceswill abutagainst the edges of said recesses, and a double-thickness yokeof a shape corresponding to the 5 shape of said recesses, but of a sizeto overlap the edges of the said breast-pieces and the surrounding edgesof the body of the corset, one of said thicknesses of yoke applied uponthe outside and the other upon the inside of the corset, and the partsall stitched together, 10 whereby the said breast-pieces are united tothe body of the corset by said yoke, substantially as described.

CHAUNOEY L. OLMSTEAD.

Witnesses;

S. BELLE STEARNS, WALTER S. RoBINsoN.

